(DailyCensored.Com)
The justices above are clearly the most rational group of high level
functionaries in the industrialized world. They did what no other
court would do in Europe or the United States. They effectively
outlawed electronic voting. On March 3, 2009, the German Federal Constitutional Court
declared that the electronic voting machines used in the 2005 Bundestag
elections for the German national parliament were outside of the bounds
of the German Constitution.

They reasoned that electronic voting is not verifiable because
citizen votes are counted in secret. It obscured a technology
inaccessible to all but a very few initiates. Most importantly, the
German high court noted, electronic voting machines don't allow
citizens to "reliably examine, when the vote is cast, whether the vote
has been recorded in an unadulterated manner" Mar. 3, 2009.

- Advertisement -

The written opinion effectively bars electronic voting in future
elections based on the complexity of voting machines and the inability
of voters to watch their vote being counted. This raises the bar of
acceptability well above the meaningless solutions offered by "paper
trails" for touch screen voting or the so-called "paper ballots" for
computerized optical scan voting machines, the most popular form of
voting in the United States.

Have you heard that one of the world's leading economic powers, the
fourth largest economy in the world, banned electronic voting; said it
was undemocratic? Given the multitude of problems encountered
in the U.S. and the number of questionable election results, wouldn't
it make sense that when Germany banned electronic voting and replaced
it with paper ballots, there would be at least a days worth of national
coverage in the United States?

Nothing like that occurred. The Associated Press
(Times of India) story on the verdict danced around the periphery of
the world media market with coverage in Turkey, India, Australia, and
Ireland. But there were no major media takers for the AP story in the
United States.

There was every reason to carry the story. In a 2006 Zogby poll,
92% of the 1028 registered voters surveyed said they agreed with this
statement: